After a stormy Sunday in Denmark, we are now ready with Mr B's Chill Session. Press play and enjoy! Terry Callier, It's About Time Download here (Right Click, Save As). BoP, Highwaymen In Midnight Masks Download here (Right Click, Save As). SP:MC, Cool Runnings Download here (Right Click, Save As). Rameses III, The Kindness In [...]
T.I.T.S. - "Throughout the Ages" MP3/download Leopard Leg - "The Seven Sistered Sea-Secret of Shh Shh Shh" download The fabled Leopard Leg / T.I.T.S. split is something of a legend in the Gumshoe home. (Listen to the TWO FREE DOWNLOADS and you'll hear why!) I was record shopping in California on a job-interview trip - [...]
rameses III the kindness in letting go 2009 (française version) Je suis revenu sur des pas vieux de dix ans. " Pour ton bien, tu ne devrais plus revenir ici. " Pour mon bien, j'avais obéi. Accepté. Jusqu'à dimanche. Au retour, j'ai eu envie d'écouter Lodger (Bowie). Move on. Tout en percevant le caractère alison costello de la chose. "Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl...Well I see you've [...]
Ulrich Schnauss has already become our generations Dream Pop captain, with his beautiful cover of Slowdive for Morr Music to this gem from his A Strangely Isolated Place LP, I hope we get something special in 2010 from him. Black To Comm is what I thought Manitoba and Mum set out to become in my head as these musicians that would make PBS nostalgia soundtracks but it all worked out in the end. Is it true that Arovane doesn't make [...]
These daylight music concerts feel a little strange, don't they? My normal gig-going routine just doesn't seem to work. You know, the usual sort of thing - half a dozen pints and a curry beforehand, cocktails and hookers with the band backstage afterwards, before getting into a brawl with a minicab driver on the way [...]
London's Rameses III have consistently eked out their own niche traversing the realms of amorphous ambient and delicate folk music. Mixing in organic instrumentation and spectral clouds of shimmer and radiance, the band gradually transports the listener to a plateau of serenity laced with a touch of longing for things left behind. The breadth of emotion that this trio is able to consistently imbue into their music is nothing short of staggering and it seems that each release brings them closer to the precipice of bliss. They've made the rounds of great labels from Important to Digitalis to 267 lattajjaa [...]
This record came highly anticipated around here after the band's last two releases, the short Honey Rose EP and their collaboration with The North Sea. This time around the band has put out an incredible two-disc collection. Originally conceived as only a single album, the first of Basillica/Origins discs contains some beautiful and fragile live improvisations that capture the form and craft that the band employed on Honey Rose. The set plays out like mossy burrows soaked in tree-strained sunlight; calm and inviting with the chilled breeze of spring barely moving the leaves above. The second [...]
The man who wrote a music for a shoe company has decided to lob his Kelly Kapoor approved efforts in a slightly more conventional direction: a movie company. Sony Pictures is releasing 21 (as in never always double down on 11) this March and has commissioned LCD to write a track, which they entitled "Big Ideas." Other artists on the soundtrack include Rihanna, UNKLE, MGMT, Amon Tobin (contributing old songs), Mark Ronson and Kasabian (doing most likely a Motowned version of Kasabian's "Lost Souls Forever") and D Sardy & Duke Spirit's Liela Moss (doing something [...]
Just after their collaboration with The North Sea, Rameses III follow up with a marvelously serene EP inspired by and written for Jon Spira's upcoming film Suityman. Mixing washes of acoustic guitar with puddles of drone that don't so much drown the album as they just lap at the edges. The EP is largely warm and filled with wonder, touching on the film's themes of memory loss; like seeing everything for the first time and finding the beauty in the minutia. For the duration of the EP it seems as if everything slows down for just a few seconds longer [...]
Things are slowly thinning out here at GPHQ. There is a narrowing in the air. I notice that Mike has arranged all his pencils neatly on his desk, the first with its finely sharpened point pointing away from him, the second toward, him, the third away again, and so on. All placed neatly side by side. He sits for hours and stares at them, as if issuing some kind of challenge. Niina sleeps too much, but none of us dare say anything. Who wants to wake the sleeping demon? Joel is defensive about his collection of toenail clippings, but honestly, [...]
One of the albums I've been coming back to these nights is Rameses III 's Matanuska on Music Fellowship . After listening to music for some time during the day, I don't want to hear any beats at night before sleep. However most of the drony/ambient music is either dark and noisy or too new age. There enters Rameses III with a bright & blissful ambience over accoustic guitars/strings. The title track "Matanuska" has a dense middle eastern atmosphere over trilling strings with guitar gestures here and there while the closer "Queen's road cemetery" [...]
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